Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-20
A l-CENT RATE.

It has come to this, old soldier boys
BY dint of entreaty and hard work, the
officials of our Kansas Department of the
Grand Army have, after repeated repul.
ses, succeeded in getting the half-rate
pool among the different railroads fol-
national-encampment round-trip fare bro
ken. 1t will be the satisfactory thing for
us to copy here what the Topeka Capital
says on this subject:
President r. r. Cable, of the Rock Is
land road, was in the city yesterday a.
and after consultation with General Pas
senger Agent John Sebastian, of the c.,
*. d n, they decided to break from the
pool" and give rate of one cent per
mile to the soldiers reunion at st. Louis.
For several weeks the transportation
committee of the Grand Army of Kansas
have been trying every means in their
power to get one-cent rate to st. Louis
for the thousands of old soldiers in Kan
sas, who are not only anxious but eager
to attend. Their efforts in every instance
had been futile.
The western association of passenger
agents have stoutly held out against the
demands of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and insisted that zone fare" for
the round trip was the best that could be
done under the circumstances.
As the Rock Island now has its road in
active operation southwest almost to the
line of the state. and reaching far to the
west and northwest, the announcement of
the Rock Island officials that they will
q rofo Of 4 po,,f Mill he To-
great JOY by many thousand old soldiers
of Kansas. Mr.. Sebastian had already
arranged for special trains over the I'm
ion Pacific from Topeka to Kansas City.
At Kansas City the passengers will be
given their choice of any route they may
select to and returning from st. Louis.
Soon after the announcement had come
from the general offices OF the Rock Is
land that the cut rate would be made,
notice was given out from the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Offices that that line
would also give rate of one cent to st.
Louis. The CAPITAL is authorized by an
official of the road to say that this rate
will be made.
These two great lines having made a
"cut" on the pool rate, it is almost certain
that the Western States Passenger asso-
citation will now give rate of one cent
on all lines in the state.
The following is issued:
TOPEKA, August II, 1887.
To the old Soldiers Of kansas:
lam authorized by Mr.. John Sebastian,
general passenger and ticket agent of the
Chicago, Kansas & Western railroad.
lRock Island route,) to announce that the
fare on that road will be one cent per
mile for the round trip to the national
encampment at st. Louis in September.
Comrades will be given choice OF roads
from Kansas City and other Missouri
river points to st. Louis, by the Rock Is
land. s. o. Mcdowell,
Transportation Committee.
Now, boys, the question is, Shall not
all of us make an effort to go? All of us
know how hard the times are. They re-
mind us of foraging for supplies through
country which has already been laid
waste. But this very idea opens up
another view. Many of us, the writer
for one, have been scouting out here on
the buffalo grass for about nine years,
without ever having been further east in
that time than Kansas City. Have we
not earned furlough beyond Kansas
City? This is the question. If we have,
why not take it now, when the cheapness
OF the chance almost invites us to leave
home for economy's sake? We want to